Companies now favoring big business schools: WSJ rankings takes pulse of corporate recruiters. (Update).'Tis the season for college rankings. Whether it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have the top academic choices or the top party schools, someone, somewhere has a list. But one list has a lot of people talking: the Wall Street Journal's Top Business Schools ranking. Now in its second year, the list is based on what corporate recruiters think of the nation's business schools and their graduates. "We take this approach because we believe what recruiters think is of the highest importance to prospective and current MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration students," says Ron Alsop, the Journal editor who conducted the survey with Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. . "After art, [the students] return to business school to improve their career prospects; they hope to graduate with a better job and salary. Therefore, it is extremely valuable for prospective students to know how recruiters feel about the different schools, as they decide where to apply." Dartmouth's Tuck Business School took top honors for the second straight year, but Alsop says that is an exception to the current trend: the bigger, elite business schools generally muscled out the smaller MBA programs this time. (Tuck was followed by U Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). , Carnegie Melon melon, fruit of Cucumis melo, a plant of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Asia and now cultivated extensively in warm regions. There are many varieties, differing in taste, color, and skin texture—e.g. , Northwestern U, and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, which ranked a disappointing 18 in last year's poll). Alsop attributes the big-school shift to changes in the job market and balance of power between recruiters and grads. With a greatly reduced corporate presence on campuses, many recruiters said they found top students at many of the most prestigious schools more open to reasonable compensation packages. "What surprised me most was that recruiters still found some schools and their students to be arrogant ar·ro·gant adj. 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: and demanding, despite the dismal dis·mal adj. 1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy. 2. job market," he told University Business. The poll is a hit with the newspaper's readers, as well as with the schools themselves, Alsop says. "Even schools that dropped in the ranking aren't reacting negatively. While disappointed, they are interested in teaming why they fell in the ranking and how they may need to improve." |
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